#trying

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#balance #freedom #imaginings #longing #need

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#carolina #citizens #help #i #just

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it! ↗

— Alexa Vega

#already #go #gym #i #muscle

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard. ↗

— Julie Gold

#anyone #calling #hard #living #make

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#eyeballs #internet #lights #like #middle

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#bacon #called #difficult #fascination #felt

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#around #asked #band #delinquent #first

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going. ↗

— Bill Frisell

#beyond #bit #feels #first #first time

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. ↗

— Anita Hill

#course #fortunately #had #helped #i